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April 7, 2014

Review of "Those of the Cursed Light" in A different Shade of Black Metal Webzine (English)

Here is the link to the review: http://darkdoomgrinddeath.blogspot.com.es/2014/03/frozen-dawnthose-of-cursed-lightxtreem.html

Frozen Dawn are a band from Spain that plays a melodic form
of black/death metal and this is a review of their 2014
album "Those of the Cursed Light" which was released by Xtreem
Music.

The album starts out with the sounds of wind along with
acoustic guitars before going into a fast and melodic black
metal direction as well as adding in blast beats and then
the grim vocals start to kick in and the band also brings
in a mixture of mid paced and fast parts and the guitars and
vocals are also by death metal.

When we get more into the album solos and leads are added
into the music and all of the musical instruments have a
very powerful sound to them and the band go back to the
90's Swedish melodic black metal sound while also having a
more modern feeling to it and at times you can hear elements
of thrash metal in the recording, as the album progresses
clean sections are added into certain sections of the
recording.

With this album Frozen Dawn go back to the 90's melodic
Swedish black metal sound while also being heavily influenced
by death metal and newer Satyricon to create their own sound
as well as updating the genre a bit.

Song lyrics cover darkness and winter themes, while the
production has a very strong, powerful, heavy and professional
sound where you can hear all of the musical instruments that
are present on this recording.

In my opinion Frozen Dawn are a very great sounding melodic
black/death metal band and if you are a fan of this musical
genre, you should check out this recording. RECOMMENDED TRACKS
INCLUDE "Blackened March" "Nocturnal Sacrifice" "The Triumph Of
God Frost" and "Eternal Frost". 8 out of 10.